UA Student Scholarships 2025 Announced

Each year UA awards several scholarships to students who demonstrate an active commitment to community service, especially in pursuit of social, economic or environmental justice. The UA Scholarship Committee (Prudence Doherty, Chair; Cheryl Morse; Steven Kostell; Patrick Brown; Eric Lindstrom) is excited to announce scholarship recipients for 2025.

US revokes a lawful international student’s visa at Middlebury College: VTDigger, 4/17/25

US revokes a lawful international student’s visa at Middlebury College: VTDigger, 4/17/25

https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/17/u-s-revokes-a-lawful-international-students-visa-at-middlebury-college/?link_id=34&can_id=8505caf3c0891f9157cb94abcdfc7c6d&source=email-weekly-aaup-news-clips-8&email_referrer=email_2702630&email_subject=weekly-aaup-news-clips&&

New Collective Bargaining Agreement for full-time faculty has been ratified- 12/6/24

The new full-time faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement is now ratified. Congratulations, and big thanks to the UA bargaining team and all the UA leaders and members who played a part in the negotiations process! We are now working through the details of implementation to make sure that you get your raises as soon as possible and that all the newly negotiated provisions are applied properly. 

What this means for you now- 

  • The $1,100 one-time payment should be in your 12/15 paycheck. 

  • The 4% across-the-board salary raises will be reflected in the December 30 paycheck, retroactive to December 1. (this raise applies to faculty who were employed at UVM in Spring 2024 and are still employed at UVM in December 2024) 

    • After the 4% raise is added to current salaries, any Lecturer salaries that are still below the new minimum of $55,000 and Senior Lecturers below $63,000 will be raised to the new minimum. 

    • Faculty should receive a new salary letter after winter break to document your updated salary.

    • The process for Research faculty raises is unchanged from the past CBA (performance increases up to 9%, subject to the process outlined in Article 18)

  • Other changes- 

    • Professional Development Funds increase to $1950 per person this fiscal year (to be spent by June 2025).

    • The waiting period for 403b contributions by UVM for Lecturers is now reduced to 2 semesters, effective immediately.

    • Paid parental leave for Lecturers in their first four years of employment is now 8 weeks (previously 6 weeks), effective immediately.

    • The overload teaching pay rate and summer teaching pay rate will increase starting in summer 2025 (overload- $2,400/credit or $7,200/course equivalent; summer rate will be the same as overload rate or 3% of faculty member's base salary per credit, whichever is greater). 

We will follow up with further information as we work through the implementation of the new CBA. If you have any questions, please contact your Delegate or Rep, the bargaining team, or UA's Contract Administration Committee. 

We have a Tentative Agreement!

After 10 months of negotiations, we have a full Tentative Agreement on the full-time faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

Members, we are holding a meeting to discuss the TA on Monday, December 2 at 4pm (on Zoom. Link in your email). The ratification vote ballot will then be sent to members late on December 2.

Details on the Tentative Agreement are available HERE and on the members page here

Vermont Public: Support staff vote to unionize at Central Vermont Medical Center (Sept. 6, 2024)